Insulation Key To Cutting Fuel Costs
A seven point plan by the National Bureau of Standards and the President's consumer office urges homeowners to improve insulation to cut winter heating and summer cooling bills. Six inches of attic insulation can pay for itself in most regions within a year, with longer payback if current insulation is under eight inches. Sidewall insulation adds value but requires expert advice for existing buildings to avoid moisture issues.
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National Bureau of Standards
R.L. Watkins
Decatur Electric Department
Ex-Grappler Jim Dean Becomes Santa in Florida
In Gainesville Florida ex wrestler Jolly Jim Dean once drew big crowds with his airplane spin shows. Now at 52 he lives in a log cabin turned toy workshop repairing cast off toys with neighbors for underprivileged children. He tours hospitals and juvenile homes as Santa Claus guiding kids that he is Kris Kringle. He wears a red suit stitched from flannel and uses a harness to cinch his 128 inch waist.
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Gainesville
Fla
Jolly Jim Dean
Man Mountain
Dean
Santa Claus
Kris Kringle
Santa
Community awards banquet for rural development themes
The awards luncheon at Decatur Inn will honor leaders in the Resource and Leadership Development program run by Auburn University Extension and sponsored by Liberty National Life Insurance and the Alabama State Chamber of Commerce. North Alabama counties contest for honors across economic, home, and community improvement categories with over 150 rural leaders expected.
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Decatur Inn
Auburn University Cooperative Extension Service
Liberty National Life Insurance Co
Alabama_ State Chamber of Commerce
North Alabama
Morgan
Limestone
Lawrence
Cullman
Blount
Cherokee
Colbert
DeKalb
Etowah
Franklin
Jackson
Lauderdale
Madison
Marion
Marshall
Winston
Stop Gap Foreign Aid Extension In Works
The House passed a $3 billion foreign aid bill with $400 million for Israel and little for India Pakistan and Ecuador as the program neared expiration. Senate leaders stalled on reauthorization and discussions focused on a six month extension into February or March amid Vietnam war deadlines and Nixon withdrawal signals.
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Washington
House
Senate
Israel
India
Pakistan
Ecuador
Nixon
Vietnam
Peking
Mike Mansfield
Mansfield
U.S
America
United Nations
Gunships and Troops Hit North Vietnamese Forces in Cambodia
U S helicopter gunships and South Vietnamese troops battered North Vietnamese forces in Cambodia near Highway 7 in the Cam Be base camp area. The spokesman Lt Col De Viet reported 73 enemy killed and 26 captured with no South Vietnamese casualties. American aircraft flew 400 missions in support.
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Saigon
Cambodia
de Viet
Cam Be
U.S
Ho Chi Minh Trail
Laos
South Vietnam
Wage-Board Committee Pushes Unified Policy
A joint committee will merge the Pay Board and the Construction Industry Stabilization Committee wage policies after recent conflicts over retroactive increases. Pay Board Chairman George H. Boldt said both sides agreed on wage controls to curb inflation, with the CISC willing to operate within Pay Board standards.
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Michael J. Reilly
Associated Press
Washington
Pay Board
Construction Industry Stabilization Committee
George H. Boldt
CISC
Detroit
Henry Ford II
Ford
Ford Motor Co
Los Angeles
Neil Jacoby
UCLA
Federal Reserve
Congress
Jacoby
Rockwell
Price Commission
House Moves to Extend Nixon Controls Through 1973
The House prepared to pass a yearlong extension of Nixon era economic controls through April 30, 1973, with speedup rules to send the bill to the White House. Senate bills match the broad framework, but differences will require a conference.
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Washington
House
Nixon
White House
Senate
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Decatur Daily
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Grappler
Super Santa
Jim Dean
Waldo, Fla
North Florida
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Carl Albert
Gerald R. Ford
Indochina
U.N
Peace Corps
Inter-American Development Bank
Demilitarized Zone
North Vietnam
Rajasthan Desert
Radiophoto
New Delhi
Way of
Nigen
The
Nixon Post
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